The Lady’s Magazine, Or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, Appropriated Solely for their Use and Amusement (Volume XXX for the Year 1799)

576 pages, numerous full page engraved illustrations, 12 fold out songs with lyrics and music. Quarter bound in calfskin leather over card covered boards, five raised bands to spine, (heavily worn all round, cracked and chipped away at edges, corner leather eroded and spine leather dry and cracked at joints and spine tips, softened and scuffed at corners). Internally, previous owner’s name on front endpaper, in copperplate hand (reads Ann Skevington, No. 9, Yeaverly), pages toned, some with small chips and creases at edges, some spotting, some fold outs have been mis-folded upon return, a few strained gutters. Generally clean and binding holding firm. Volume XXX of the Lady’s Magazine, comprising all 12 monthly issues published in 1799. Each issue contains a selection of articles regarding history and world events, customs and opinions, political reflections, foreign news, home news, serialised novels and tales, letters and correspondence and poetical essays. Each issue contains at least one song with music and lyrics, a number of them attributing Handel as the composer. Other articles which feature in this bound volume include ‘On Female Pride’; Account of the Embassy of Lord MaCartney to China’; ‘Account of the Town of Brighthelmstone’; ‘On National Pride’; A Landscape in Switzerland’; ‘Lady’s Dresses on his Majesty’s Birthday’; Character of Gainsborough’; ‘A Negro Receipt of Taming Shrews’; etc. Does not have the fashion plates present in some editions. Thick 8vo.